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Roller Derby World Cup

moutuakilla
moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
in Other Football and Sports
Apparently, this is a thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/42683851

From what I have gathered so far, you gain points by holding hands with people and pushing past other people who are also holding hands...

I'm not 100% sure if this is real or if my gf laced my dinner with something

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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Yep it's a thing alright, never seen it in real life but I gather it's actually pretty rough.

    All I know about it I learnt from the movie 'Whip it' which was actually surprisingly good.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    I would have put money on it that Paulie had started this thread.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    Bedsaddick said:

    I would have put money on it that Paulie had started this thread.

    Might have featured a few more highlights if he had
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Went to watch a "match" in Stuttgart, was surprisingly good
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    edited February 2018
    Oh it's great fun. I have no fucking clue what the rules are, or how they score points, but it's still great to watch. Had mates who did it when I lived in Gainesville, FL, so went and watched. It's very violent.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    I understand it's like Rollerball but without the ball or the motorbikes and not quite so much death.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Comfortably my favourite North American team sport - but it's only right if it's women doing it. The men's version is crap.

    I would not want to be in the way of some of the heavies that trundle around the rink for my local ladies team - they are bruisers.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,163
    Hope it’s like this https://youtu.be/BB1LuCUovW4
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Was regularly on World of Sport in the 70s.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Roller Derby girls are all fucking mental. It's great to watch, but - yeah, I wouldn't want to be 'involved' with one of them.
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  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Was coverage on BBC website at the weekend, which I missed.
    worst thing is they insist on pronouncing it durrby as in furrby not derby as in Derby like what it is sposed to be pronouned

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